Detached Outbuilding In Garden Of Number 4

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8563NE ST MARY'S SQUARE 639-1/11/623 (North side) Detached outbuilding in garden of No.4

GV II

An outbuilding formerly used as a bakehouse and wash-house. Dated 1873 across the south gable. In flint and red brick, rendered along the west side; plaintiled roof. In an ornate pseudo-vernacular style. EXTERIOR: single storey. The south gable end has a small pentice-roofed lean-to above the lower part of the wall and kidney flints to the upper part; the apex is filled with random brick and the whole upper part has applied mock timbering. A lozenge-shaped window has a carved stone hood-mould. Fluted barge-boards and spike finials to the gables. Roof with 2 small triangular louvres in the west slope and pierced ridge-tiles. A large boarded wooden louvre on the ridge has a high conical lead-covered roof. An internal chimney-stack with a plain red brick shaft is topped by a terracotta chimney-pot unusually decorated with leaf and floral motifs. INTERIOR: divided into 2. The principal room, open to the roof, was used as the wash-house/bakehouse and the smaller area for storage.

Listing NGR: TL8575363851